The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme will deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars.
ESA's rover, pictured here, will be the first to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth.
The 310 kg rover will traverse the martian surface on a locomotion system composed of 3 bogie structures – pivoting undercarriages – that are connected to six flexible wheels.
At selected sites, the rover will stop and deploy the drill (inside the large grey box at the front of the rover). ExoMars' drill is the first capable of drilling 2 m into the martian surface, where ancient biomarkers may still be preserved from the harsh radiation environment on the surface. It will collect samples with the drill and deliver them to the Analytical Laboratory Drawer (ALD) in the body of the rover, via the sample delivery window (the small opening above the drill box). Within the ALD the samples will be analysed with an infrared spectrometer (MicrOmega), a raman spectrometer (RLS), and the Mars organics molecule analyser (MOMA) instrument.
The drill also contains the Mars Multispectral Imager for Subsurface Studies, Ma_MISS, which will study the walls of the borehole created by the drill to investigate the mineralogy and rock formation.
PanCam, the panoramic camera located at the top of the rover mast, 2m above the surface, will provide stereo and 3D imagery of the terrain around the rover.
The Infrared Spectrometer for ExoMars, ISEM, which is situated beneath the PanCam, will determine the major mineral composition of distant rocks, outcrops, and soils.
The Close-Up Imager, CLUPI, will acquire high-resolution, colour, close-up images of outcrops, rocks, soils, drill fines and drill core samples. In this view, CLUPI can be seen beneath the drill box, on the right.
Adron, a neutron detector to search for subsurface water and hydrated materials, and WISDOM (for Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observation On Mars), a ground-penetrating radar, are not visible in this image, although the two WISDOM radar antennas can be seen at the back of the rover body.
Navigation cameras (at the top of the mast) and localisation cameras (at the base of the mast) are used to determine where the rover is and where it will move.
Power is supplied to the rover by solar arrays. These are folded during the journey to Mars and deployed once the rover is on the martian surface.
Two UHF monopole antennas are used to communicate with Mars orbiters, including the Trace Gas Orbiter.
More information about this video can be found at http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58857-exomars-rover-a-360-degree-view/

ExoMars TGO first year in orbit

An overview animation of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's expected path around Mars between October 2016 and December 2017.
The spacecraft entered orbit on 19 October 2016, on a highly elliptical path that took it between about 250 km and 98 000 km from the planet in about 4.2 days.
The main science mission is intended to take place from a near-circular 400 km orbit, starting in early 2018. The spacecraft will achieve this orbit by aerobraking – using the planet's atmosphere to slow down gradually.
First, on 19 January 2017, the angle of the orbit will be changed to 74° with respect to the equator, so that science observations can cover most of the planet.
Next, to get into an aerobraking orbit, the craft will fire its thrusters in early February to reach 200 km × 33 475 km, which will also reduce its orbital period to 24 hours.
Aerobraking is planned to begin on 15 March, with a series of seven manoeuvres – about one every three days – that will steadily lower the craft's altitude at its point of closest approach, from 200 km to about 114 km. Then the atmosphere will take over, gradually reducing the most distant part of the orbit.
Final manoeuvres are expected at the end of 2017 to circularise the orbit at an altitude of about 400 km, whereupon the science mission can begin.
The animation is based on data available as of end-2016, but the actual timing of the various manoeuvres may be subject to change as operational plans develop during 2017.
More information about this video can be found at http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58654-exomars-tgo-first-year-in-orbit/

ExoMars first year in orbit

An overview animation of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter’s expected path around Mars between October 2016 and December 2017.
The spacecraft entered orbit on 19 October 2016, on a highly elliptical path that took it between about 250 km and 98 000 km from the planet in about 4.2 days.
The main science mission is intended to take place from a near-circular 400 km orbit, starting in early 2018. The spacecraft will achieve this orbit by aerobraking – using the planet’s atmosphere to slow down gradually.First, on 19 January 2017, the angle of the orbit will be changed to 74º with respect to the equator, so that science observations can cover most of the planet.
Next, to get into an aerobraking orbit, the craft will fire its thrusters in early February to reach 200 x 33 475 km, which will also reduce its orbital period to 24 hours.
Aerobraking is planned to begin on 15 March, with a series of seven manoeuvres – about one every three days – that will steadily lower the craft’s altitude at its point of closest approach, from 200 km to about 114 km. Then the atmosphere will take over, gradually reducing the most distant part of the orbit.
Final manoeuvres are expected at the end of 2017 to circularise the orbit at an altitude of about 400 km, whereupon the science mission can begin.
The animation is based on data available as of end-2016, but the actual timing of the various manoeuvres may be subject to change as operational plans develop during 2017.
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ESA Gets $469M for Next Mars Mission

The 22 member states of the European Space Agency approved $469 million in funding on Dec. 2 to send a rover to Mars in 2022

A showcase of some of the first and highest resolution images acquired by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on 22 November 2016.
The first image sequence shown was taken at a distance of 5300 km with a resolution of 60 m/pixel, about 44 minutes before closest approach. It illustrates how CaSSIS acquires data by taking images in colour simultaneously: at panchromatic, red, near-infrared and blue wavelengths.
A 3D reconstruction of a small area in Noctis Labyrinthus is also presented, based on a stereo pair of images taken, and presented with an altitude map with a resolution of less than 20 m.
Next, a spectacular high-resolution image sequence acquired during closest approach of 235 km altitude is presented. At this time, the spacecraft was flying over the Hebes Chasma region. The highest resolution data acquired is at 2.8 m/pixel. The flyover is shown at half the speed at which the data were acquired.
Then, an image swath about 25 km wide is shown of Arisa Chasmata, which is located on the flanks of a large volcano on Mars named Arsia Mons.
Finally, a close up of a 1.4 km-diameter crater sitting in the rim of a much larger crater near the Mars equator is presented. This image was acquired at 7.2 m/pixel.
This video was produced by the CaSSIS camera team and the University of Bern.
Credits: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars/CaSSIS/UniBE
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The Launch of ExoMars | MARS

Experts wait in anticipation for the launch of the ExoMars mission, a joint venture between ESA and Rocosmos.
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Shortly after the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli arrived at Mars, the lander disappeared. What happened to it? How do we know?
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What Europe's Other Lost Mars Lander Could Tell Us About Schiaparelli's Fate
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"Another Martian mission, this one conducted more than 13 years ago, landed on Mars in an eerily similar fashion. The ending of that story could tell us something about Schiaparelli's future."
Schiaparelli, the European Perspective
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"One of the core scientific goals of any mission to Mars is the search for evidence of life. The best approach is to investigate the surface where the evidence may lie. The key element for accessing the surface of Mars and one of the greatest challenges in space exploration is the successful execution of the entry, descent and landing sequence."
Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color
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"The ExoMars project received data from Schiaparelli during its descent through the atmosphere. ESA reports that the heat shield separated as planned, the parachute deployed as planned but was released (with back shell) prematurely, and the lander hit the ground at a velocity of more than 180 miles per hour (more than 300 kilometers per hour)."
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If you’re going to send a spacecraft to Mars, you’ve got to know that place has an insatiable hunger for our plucky robot companions. Why is this place cursed?
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I’m recording this video just a few days after ESA’s Schiaparelli lander smashed onto the surface of Mars. Apparently its descent thrusters shut off early, and instead of gently landing on the surface, it hit hard, going 300 km/h, creating a 15-meter crater on the surface of Mars.
Fortunately, the orbiter part of ExoMars mission made it safely to Mars, and will now start gathering data about the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere. If everything goes well, this might give us compelling evidence there’s active life on Mars, right now.
It’s a shame that the lander portion of the mission crashed on the surface of Mars, but it’s certainly not surprising. In fact, so many spacecraft have gone to the galactic graveyard trying to reach Mars that normally rational scientists turn downright superstitious about the place.
They call it the Mars Curse, or the Great Galactic Ghoul.
Mars eats spacecraft for breakfast. It’s not picky. It’ll eat orbiters, landers, even gentle and harmless flybys. Sometimes it kills them before they’ve even left Earth orbit.
At the time I’m recording this video in late October, 2016, Earthlings have sent a total of 55 robotic missions to Mars. Did you realize we’ve tried to hurl that much computing metal towards the Red Planet?
11 flybys, 23 orbiters, 15 landers and 6 rovers.
How’s our average? Terrible. Of all these spacecraft, only 53% have arrived safe and sound at Mars, to carry out their scientific mission. Half of all missions have failed.
Let me give you a bunch of examples.
In the early 1960s, the Soviets tried to capture the space exploration high ground to send missions to Mars. They started with the Mars 1M probes. They tried launching two of them in 1960, but neither even made it to space. Another in 1962 was destroyed too.
They got close with Mars 1 in 1962, but it failed before it reached the planet, and Mars 2MV didn’t even leave the Earth’s orbit.
Five failures, one after the other, that must have been heartbreaking.
Then the Americans took a crack at it with Mariner 3, but it didn’t get into the right trajectory to reach Mars.
Finally, in 1964 the first attempt to reach Mars was successful with Mariner 4. We got a handful of blurry images from a brief flyby.
For the next decade, both the Soviets and Americans threw all kinds of hapless robots on a collision course with Mars, both orbiters and landers. There were a few successes, like Mariner 6 and 7, and Mariner 9 which went into orbit for the first time in 1971.
But mostly, it was failure. The Soviets suffered 10 missions that either partially or fully failed. There were a couple of orbiters that made it safely to the Red Planet, but their lander payloads were destroyed. That sounds familiar.
Now, don’t feel too bad about the Soviets. While they were struggling to get to Mars, they were having wild success with their Venera program, orbiting and eventually landing on the surface of Venus. They even sent a few pictures back.
Finally, the Americans saw their greatest success in Mars exploration: the Viking Missions. Viking 1 and Viking 2 both consisted of an orbiter/lander combination, and both spacecraft were a complete success.
Was the Mars Curse over?
Not even a little bit. During the 1990s, the Russians lost a mission, the Japanese lost a mission, and the Americans lost 3, including the Mars Observer, Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander.
There were some great successes, though, like the Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Pathfinder. You know, the one with the Sojourner Rover that’s going to save Mark Watney?
The 2000s have been good. Every single American mission has been successful, including Spirit and Opportunity, Curiosity, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and others.

ExoMars at Mars: Schiaparelli's plunge, the methane mystery and the search for life

Scientists and engineers on the ExoMars project had their hearts in their mouths as the ExoMars mission reached the red planet, with the Schiaparelli probe going missing in action at the end of its descent just as the TGO mothership swept into a perfectly timed orbit.
The rollercoaster ride of arrival at Mars is the first installment in this ambitious Russian and European project that aims for the first time to directly search for signs of life on Mars.
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ExoMars Science

On Mars there are dust storms, polar ice caps and four distinct seasons. This dynamic world has the largest volcanic mountain in our Solar System and a canyon stretching over 5000 kilometres. Its atmosphere also includes methane, which could result from geological processes or be signatures of current biological activity on the planet. The joint European and Russian ExoMars mission will test key exploration technologies and search for evidence of methane and other rare gases in the Martian atmosphere. This film is a recap of the science aims of the ExoMars 2016 mission, building on the findings of Europe’s Mars Express spacecraft.

ESA Euronews: ExoMars at Mars

Scientists and engineers on the ExoMars project had their hearts in their mouths as the ExoMars mission reached the red planet, with the Schiaparelli probe going missing in action at the end of its descent just as the TGO mothership swept into a perfectly timed orbit.
The rollercoaster ride of arrival at Mars is the first installment in this ambitious Russian and European project that aims for the first time to directly search for signs of life on Mars.
The plight of Schiaparelli remains unclear. It is certainly on the Martian surface, but may well have hit the red dust much harder then engineers had planned, and nothing has been heard from it since.
Data relayed during the lander's descent shows the initial high-speed entry to the Martian atmosphere went well, with the heatshield slowing the craft and the parachute deploying. However once the back heat shield and parachute were ejected the flow of events did not go to plan.
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Final Frontier – ExoMars Landing Fail

Space is cold and unforgiving! On Wednesday of this week no one knew that more than the team in charge of the Lander part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Mission after their lander, Schiaparelli, failed to respond during and after landing on the Martian surface.
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European Space Agency hails its ExoMars mission

*The European Space Agency is hailing its ExoMars mission a success, despite mystery over the fate of a lander, supposed to have touched down on the Red Planet.*
Signals from the Schiaparelli probe stopped just before landing - though a parachute to slow its descent did deploy.
"Not only that has functionally worked from a timing point of view but also the heat shield that is protecting the capsule throughout this atmospheric phase at high velocity has worked flawlessly.
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The John Batchelor Show - Signal Loss of ESA ExoMars Schiaparelli on the Surface of Mars.

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ExoMars Arrival Update - One Crash, One Successful Orbiter

It's half good news, half bad news for ESA and Roscosmos as the Trace Gas Orbiter successfully placed itself in orbit around Mars while the Schiaparelli Lander has almost certainly been lost.

Mars Lander's Fate Unknown

An illustration released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the Schiaparelli EDM lander. A European space lander reached Mars on October 19, 2016 in what scientists hope will mark a major milestone in exploration of the Red Planet, but whether it touched down on the... Scientists said data had been received showing the lander's heat shield and parachutes deployed successfully, but that it was unclear what happened in the final seconds before landing and no data had yet been received from the surface.
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Mars lander lost during descent

The European Space Agency confirmed that the Schiaparelli spacecraft, expected to land on Mars on Wednesday, has been lost, according to CNN. During a press conference on Thursday, scientists said that Schiaparelli stopped transmitting 50 seconds before the expected landing. The agency thinks something went wrong in the spacecraft's parachute during descent.
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Did ExoMars Lander Survive Its Fall?

The European and Russian ExoMars mission successfully put a spacecraft into orbit on Oct. 19, but still haven't received a radio signal from the Schiaparelli lander

Mars landing: what happened to the Schiaparelli probe?

The European Space Agency (ESA) is to give more details on Thursday morning (10.00 CET) as to what may have happened to the Schiaparelli probe which was supposed to have landed on Mars.
Contact was lost during its descent on Wednesday afternoon (European time), before it reached the surface.
Scientists are working to confirm its status via data received from other satellites, amid fears the probe may have crashed or been destroyed.
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ESA Mars After a seven month journey, the ExoMars mission arrives in orbit around Mars to attempt a historic, daredevil landing on the Red Planet.
A collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, ExoMars seeks to continue the search for biological and geologic activity on Mars, a planet often described as Earth’s little brother and which may have had a much warmer, wetter climate in the past. The first phase of the mission, which arrives today, consists of a Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a Schiaparelli lander. On Sunday, these two craft broke free from each other, and today, they go their separate ways for good.
If the lander is successful, it’ll be a historic moment for the ESA—the first time the space agency has made a controlled touchdown on the Red Planet.
Schiaparelli was expected to enter the atmosphere at 10:42 a.m. ET on Wednesday, and make its landing at 10:48.
"It may take some hours to get official confirmation that Schiaparelli has landed on the Red Planet," the ESA says.
In the best-case scenario, we wouldn't know what happened right away. It takes 10 minutes for signals to travel between Mars and Earth, and observing the success or failure of the landing will be complicated.
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Is there life on Mars? Landing of ExoMars probe today may tell us more

Destination: The Red Planet.
Seven months after setting off, Europe's ExoMars mission should make history later on Wednesday.
Having successfully separated from its Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mothership on Sunday, the space probe Schiaparelli is due to touch down, its descent slowed by a parachute.
But landing on Mars is notoriously difficult and there will be a few sweaty palms at the European Space Agency's Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany.
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Visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the martian atmosphere to land on Mars.
Schiaparelli will enter the atmosphere at about 21 000 km/h and in less than six minutes it will use a heatshield, a parachute and thrusters to slow its descent before touching down in the Meridiani Planum region close to the equator, absorbing the final contact with a crushable structure.
The entire process will take less than six minutes: the animation has been sped up.
Schiaparelli separated from the Trace Gas Orbiter on 16 October 2016, after a seven-month cruise together through space, and will enter the atmosphere on 19 October at 14:42 UTC.
Both Schiaparelli and the Mars scenery in this animation were computer generated.
More information about this video can be found at http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58407-schiaparelli-s-descent-to-mars/

Schiaparelli’s descent to Mars in real time

Visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the atmosphere to land on Mars. The animation follows a simulated timeline of the module, starting when it enters the atmosphere at an altitude of 121 km at 14:42 GMT. In six minutes it will use a heatshield, parachute and thrusters to brake from 21 000 km/h to a near standstill 2 m above the surface, where a crushable structure on its underside will absorb the final shock.
The key operational milestones are highlighted in the animation at the predicted times at which they have been calculated to occur. However, the actual times may vary depending on the atmospheric conditions on the day, the final path through the atmosphere and the speed at which the module descends.
The times indicated in the animation are onboard spacecraft times at Mars. The one-way signal travel time on 19 October is just under 10 minutes, meaning that signals relayed by spacecraft at Mars are received on Earth about 10 minutes after the event itself has happened on the Red Planet.
Both Schiaparelli and the Mars scenery in this animation are computer-generated.

European Space Agency's ExoMars mission control applaud the confirmation of the lander separating from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on October 16, 2016. Schiaparelli is scheduled to land on the Red planet on Oct. 19. -- Fast Descent! ExoMars' Module Will Land In Under 6 Minutes | Video: https://goo.gl/MA8sbE
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Will ExoMars Find Life On The Red Planet?

The Mars rovers are about to get some company on the red planet. What is the ExoMars mission? Will it find life on Mars?
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ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli Mission
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"The Orbiter and Schiaparelli were launched together on 14 March 2016 on a Proton rocket and will fly to Mars in a composite configuration. By taking advantage of the positioning of Earth and Mars the cruise phase can be limited to about 7 months, with the pair arriving at Mars in October."
European Spacecraft Prepares to Land on Mars Next Week
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"Ready for descent - deploy thrusters! The Schiaparelli spacecraft, part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars mission to Mars, has received its landing commands for its expected Oct. 19 touchdown on the Red Planet, and a new video shows how the spacecraft will descend."
Two space agencies will attempt an historic landing on Mars next week
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"The European Space Agency has teamed up with Russia's Roscosmos program to land a spacecraft on Mars on Wednesday, October 19. If they stick the landing, they'll join NASA as the only space agencies in history to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars (minus the failed Mars 3 probe). And that will only be the beginning - the lander will then start a whole new quest to search for signs of life on the Red Planet."
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ExoMars: From separation to landing

On 16 October, seven months and 500 million km after launching from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, the joint European and Russian ExoMars 2016 mission reaches a crucial phase.
The Trace Gas Orbiter will release its Schiaparelli lander for a three day coast and a six minute descent to the Martian surface.The lander, which was designed to demonstrate technologies for entry, descent and landing on Mars, is heading for the Meridiani Planum. This is an area that is currently being studied by NASA’s Opportunity rover and Europe’s Mars Express orbiter.
On 19 October, the Schiaparelli lander will be activated a few hours before reaching the Martian atmosphere, when it will be travelling at some 21 000 km/h. The front heatshield – covered with 90 insulating tiles – will be subjected to temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Celsius.
This video covers the separation, descent and landing procedures, as well as the orbiter’s critical burn to avoid crashing on the surface of Mars.

ExoMars arrival seen by Mars Express

This animation shows the view of the arrival of ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparelli Entry, descent and landing Demonstrator Module as seen from ESA's Mars Express on 19 October 2016.
More specifically, it shows the field of view as 'seen' by the Melacom radio receiver on Mars Express, which will be receiving signals from Schiaparelli beginning at 13:22 GMT (15:22 CEST) and ending at 15:08 GMT (17:08 CEST). The record of these signals from Schiaparelli will provide a critical indication of the module's descent progress, trajectory and landing.At the start of the animation, TGO and Schiaparelli are shown already separated, which is set to occur at 14:42 GMT (16:42 CEST) on 16 October.
The animation covers the time period between approximately 13:35 GMT (15:35 CEST) and 15:27 GMT (17:27 CEST) on 19 October, including the expected time of Schiaparelli touch down at 14:47 GMT (16:47 CEST).
At the end of the animation, Melacom has stopped recording signals from Schiaparelli and the view rotates as Mars Express slews into an Earth-pointing orientation to transmit the recorded signals to mission controllers at ESA's ESOC operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars
More about the Melacom lander communication system:
http://blogs.esa.int/mex/2012/08/05/melacom-europes-voice-ears-at-mars

ExoMars at Mars

Three days before arriving at Mars on 19 October 2016, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will release its entry, descent and landing demonstrator, Schiaparelli, towards the Red Planet. ExoMars is several missions in one. Its orbiter is a science and relay mission. The TGO will search for evidence of gases, such as methane, that may be associated with geological or biological processes. The Schiaparelli lander is a technology demonstrator to test key technologies for future missions to Mars.
The landing site is an elliptical region close to the equator about 100 km long and 15 km wide in the planet’s Meridiani Planum area. It is relatively flat, smooth and well studied as NASA’s Opportunity rover is on the ground and ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, which will also act as one of the data relay orbiters, has been overhead since 2003.
This video covers the landing and orbital manoeuvres, including the use of aerobraking - which ESA is using for the first time at Mars.

Schiaparelli’s descent to Mars

Visualisation of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module entering and descending through the martian atmosphere to land on Mars.
Schiaparelli will enter the atmosphere at about 21 000 km/h and in less than six minutes it will use a heatshield, a parachute and thrusters to slow its descent before touching down in the Meridiani Planum region close to the equator, absorbing the final contact with a crushable structure.
The entire process will take less than six minutes: the animation has been sped up.
Schiaparelli is set to separate from the Trace Gas Orbiter on 16 October, after a seven-month cruise together through space, and will enter the atmosphere on 19 October at 14:42 GMT.
For an overview of the key timings and altitudes corresponding to the events portrayed in this animation see the Schiaparelli descent sequence graphic: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/02/ExoMars_2016_Schiaparelli_descent_sequence_16_9
Both Schiaparelli and the Mars scenery in this animation were computer generated.
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars
ExoMars FAQ:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/ExoMars_frequently_asked_questions

Google hangout with ExoMars mission experts for an update on the cruise to Mars, the crucial mid-course manoeuvre on 28 July and the upcoming preparations for the arrival phase. The hangout was held on 26 July at 16:00 CEST/14:00 GMT.
Since launch on 14 March, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli landing demonstration module have been en route to the Red Planet.
The hangout included mission updates and a live Q&A with ESA experts and scientists, focusing on the crucial milestones during the spacecraft's seven-month cruise to the Red Planet.
The hangout was hosted by Daniel Scuka (ESA Spacecraft Operations Editor) who was joined by:
** Michel Denis - ExoMars Flight Director, ESOC
** Silvia Sangiorgi - ExoMars Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager, ESOC
** Michael Khan - Mission Analyst, ESOC
** Ian Thomas - NOMAD (spectrometer) Project Manager, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Background info on #ExoMars :
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/ExoMars_TGO_operations

ExoMars is on its way

After a successful launch from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in March, the ExoMars spacecraft is making good progress on its 500 million km trip to Mars.
The joint European and Russian mission will perform science, test lander and descent technology, and may help solve the mystery of why there is methane on Mars. The gas could indicate a geological origin or past or present life - most likely from microbes. The mission carries four scientific packages with Russia developing one of the three spectrometers on board the orbiter’s Atmospheric Chemistry Suite.
This film provides an update of ExoMars’ journey. It includes the first test image from the Trace Gas Orbiter’s high-resolution camera and looks ahead to a major course correction manoeuvre in July. The spacecraft will then be lined up for arrival at Mars on 19 October 2016.
Includes interviews with Thomas Passvogel, Head of Science Projects, ESA (English); Oleg Korablev, ACS Experiment Principal Investigator (Russian); Nicolas Thomas, CaSSIS Experiment Principal Investigator, University of Bern (English).
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars

ExoMars prepares for liftoff (4K timelapse)

Timelapse movie following the preparations of the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft in the lead up to launch on 14 March 2016. The movie includes the integration of the entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, Schiaparelli, with the Trace Gas Orbiter, and the journey of the spacecraft inside the Proton rocket as it is moved to the launch pad and raised to a vertical position.
ExoMars launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT on 14 March. It will arrive at the Red Planet on 19 October. Its mission is to address unsolved mysteries of the planet’s atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity, and to demonstrate the landing technologies needed for future missions to Mars.
Find out more: http://www.esa.int/exomars
Credits: Directed by Stephane Corvaja, ESA; Edited by Manuel Pedoussaut, Zetapress; Music by Hubrid-Time

ExoMars 2016 liftoff

Replay of the ExoMars 2016 liftoff on a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT on 14 March 2016.
Credit: ESA/Euronews

Twitter Periscope from Exomars mission control room

On 14 March 2016, during the 12-hour wait period between ExoMars launch and receipt of first signals from space, Senior Editor for Spacecraft Operations Daniel Scuka took ESA's Twitter followers on a live visit to the Main Control Room at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, via Periscope, meeting some of the men and woman working on the mission control team.

Mars TGO mission heads for Red Planet on methane quest - BBC News

Europe and Russia have launched a joint mission to the Red Planet.
The satellite, called the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), lifted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT. The probe will investigate whether the methane in the world's atmosphere is coming from a geological source or is being produced by microbes. If all goes well, the two space powers expect to follow up this venture with a rover, to be assembled in the UK, which will drill into the surface.
That could launch in 2018, or, as seems increasingly likely, in 2020.
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First phase of ExoMars mission launches to the Red Planet

Two robotic spacecraft launched into space on a Russian Proton rocket on Monday — the start of a seven-month journey to Mars. It’s the first launch of the ExoMars mission, a partnership between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos. The goal: determine if Mars is — or has ever been — home to alien life.
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Exomars ESA launch on Proton Rocket

The Exomars spacecraft was succesfully launched on march 14th at 09.30 GMT.
The ExoMars 2016 mission launched on a four-stage Proton-M/Breeze-M rocket, provided by Roscosmos, from Baikonur during the 14–25 March 2016 window. About ten-and-a-half hours after launch, the spacecraft will separate from the rocket and deploy its solar wings.
After separation, command and control of the spacecraft will be done by ESA’s mission control teams at ESOC, supported by experts from flight dynamics, ground stations and software systems.
In the first six weeks following launch the spacecraft will be commissioned, when all the systems and instruments are checked out and verified. Then it enters the cruise phase. At the end of July the Trace Gas Orbiter carries out one of the most critical activities during its cruise to Mars: a very large engine burn that changes its direction and speed to intersect the Red Planet on 19 October.
Critical arrival activities begin on 16 October. Prior to dispatching Schiaparelli, TGO will perform a slew, rotating about its axes to a specific orientation in space. About 12 hours after Schiaparelli has separated, TGO will fire its engine to raise its trajectory to several hundred kilometres above the planet. Otherwise, like Schiaparelli, it would also enter the atmosphere.
Thus Schiaparelli will enter the atmosphere and land on Mars on 19 October, while TGO enters orbit around the Red Planet.
The ExoMars programme is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.
The primary goal of the ExoMars programme is to address the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars. This relates to its name, with the ‘exo’ referring to the study of exobiology – the possible existence of life beyond Earth (sometimes also referred to as astrobiology).
The programme comprises two missions. The first will be launched in March 2016 and consists of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli, an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module. The second is planned for launch in 2018 and comprises a rover and surface science platform.
TGO’s main objectives are to search for evidence of methane and other trace atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes. Schiaparelli will test key technologies in preparation for ESA's contribution to subsequent missions to Mars.
The 2018 rover that will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. The 2016 TGO will act as a relay for the 2018 mission.

The European Space Agency successfully launches a Proton-M rocket from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, headed for mars.
The spacecraft is part of the Exomars mission which aims to find out if there is life on the red planet. (14 March 2016)

The Proton rocket that will launch the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft during rollout to the launch pad where it was moved into a vertical position.
Launch is scheduled for 09:31 GMT/10:31 CET on 14 March from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Watch the launch via the ESA website from 08:30 GMT/09:30 CET: http://www.esa.int
Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/ExoMars

ExoMars - building on past missions to Mars

The ExoMars 2016 spacecraft will build on past missions to Mars. From the pioneering Viking missions onwards, our knowledge of Mars has been transformed and we now have an extraordinarily detailed picture of the planet. There are dust storms, polar ice caps and four distinct seasons. Mars has the largest volcanic mountain in our solar system and a canyon stretching over 5000 kilometres.
This film covers what we have learnt in particular from Europe’s Mars Express mission. Since its arrival in 2003, it has found evidence of water on Mars, discovered methane in the planet’s atmosphere, mapped the structure and composition of the south polar ice cap, discovered auroras and made the closest ever flybys of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons. Mars Express also helped scientists select the landing site for the NASA Mars Curiosity rover, which arrived in Gale crater in 2012.
More remains to be learnt from Mars. Not least, whether the methane results from geological activity or past or present life.
Read more about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars

ExoMars 2016: Fairing encapsulation

Video from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, showing the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft composite being encased inside the launcher fairing. The first half of the fairing is rolled into place underneath the spacecraft assembly, and the second fairing half is manoeuvred into place by an overhead crane.
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars

ExoMars 2016: Scaffold release and tilt

Video from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, showing the scaffolding being released from around the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft composite, which is mounted with the Breeze upper stage on the conical launch vehicle adapter, and the spacecraft being tilted into the horizontal position ready to be enclosed inside the launcher fairing.
The Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstrator module can be seen throughout (Schiaparelli is positioned at the top of the spacecraft ‘stack’, as seen at the start of the video).
More about ExoMars:
http://www.esa.int/exomars

ExoMars science

On 14 March at 09:31 GMT ExoMars 2016 will be launched from Baikonur onboard a Proton rocket.
The joint European and Russian ExoMars mission will test key exploration technologies and search for evidence of methane and other rare gases in the Martian atmosphere. These gases could result from geological processes or they could be signatures of current biological activity on the planet.
This film examines the two European science instruments on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - CaSSIS and NOMAD. The high-resolution CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) acts as the orbiter’s scientific eye. It is a telescope with a sophisticated detector that can provide colour and stereo images over a nine and a half kilometre wide strip. CaSSIS will examine recurring slope linea - dark lines on the surface of Mars at different times of the day over the planet’s seasons. These linea are believed to be associated with liquid brine. They increase in size during the Martian spring and summer and fade away during autumn and winter.
NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) will be the first high resolution instrument of its kind around the planet. It will observe information about Mars’ atmosphere by looking at the Sun during sunsets and sunrises. It contains three spectrometers - two working in the infrared and one in ultraviolet - and can identify trace gases in the atmosphere, such as methane. The presence of methane in Mars’ atmosphere could result from simple life forms like microbes.

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